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CVE-2015-6285 (GCVE-0-2015-6285)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-14 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:15
VLAI
Summary
Format string vulnerability in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) 7.6.0 and 8.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite or service outage) via format string specifiers in an HTTP request, aka Bug ID CSCug21497.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033531 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2015-09-09 00:00
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